Author: Zac

You cannot dispute the legendary history that Crystal Palace carries for skateboarders. It was once a mecca for skateboarding in the 1970s and 80s for hosting the first ramp in South London and its legacy will continue if the current locals get backing from skateboarders who read this.

Our feature that delved into the days of Crystal Palace back then are documented here. Take it in and then sign the petition to help build a great new park there again.

All parks deserve your support, please sign it and share this post.

(Ph: Dan Adams at Palace in the 80s by David Hopkins)

Nothing like a drop in of this size to get the morning started. Rob Smith could not help himself.

Welcome Skateboards aficionado Erick Winkowski proves that just 2 days on the road can muster up enough footage for a quick selfie. No need for filmers either. Enjoy this and then scroll down if you want more from another edit featuring his Brother Mikey released two weeks back.

The Worble crew hit the road from Vermont through Masschussetts and into NYC where they drank coffee, hit the streets and had this much fun.

Essex dagger and Self Help fiend Horsey has been added to the Backwards Wheels team, the new UK urethane company that has launched this year with Ben Rowles, Caradog Emanuel, Kyron McGrath-Davis and Josh Cox also repping the round stuff.

Expect more from Horsey in the next couple weeks as he shares a part with Ben Raemers in the independent video “Albion” and another part in Jake Martinelli’s video “Rugged Raw”.

Scroll down to eyeball the wheels.

Polar Skateboards graphic machine Jakke Ovgren will be in London to open his first ever solo exhibition featuring his work at Beach London next Thursday.

The exhibition, titled SEX (Sick Emotions X-zibit) will feature drawings, paintings and prints of his unique dark artwork that features rollerbladers being chopped into pieces, fat kids fighting for cake and more Mark McKee, Cliver and Bratrud inspired comic based goodness.

SEX provocatively sees child-like characters in a range of disturbing sexual scenarios and although sounds dodgy as hell, it should have a strong dose of his tongue-in-cheek humour running throughout its theme and will be worth checking out.

This exhibition opens February 27th and run until March 23rd.